CVE-2003-0089: HP HP-Ux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the Software Distributor utilities for HP-UX B.11.00 and B.11.11 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long LANG environment variable to setuid programs such as (1) swinstall and (2) swmodify.

Affected products

• HP HP-Ux: version 11.00 only; version 11.11 only

Published 2003-12-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.